Well, if there's enough support for it, why don't we offer it -- and make it SAFE -- right up through age 18? We can call it "termination of parenthood" and have "termination centers" where unwanted offspring can be painlessly dispatched by lethal injection or nitrogen asphyxiation.
After all, teenagers are almost as inconvenient and troublesome as babies, and a lot more expensive.
You seem to think abortion is icky. The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is not merely icky ... it's murder.
Ever heard of the "Ten Lost Tribes of Israel"? Know why they're the Ten Lost Tribes? Because they split off, politically, from the rest, and began to embrace Canaanite idolatry. One of the major parts of Canaanite idolatry was the sacrifice of babies to the god Molech.
Their punishment was to be conquered by the Assyrians. When the Assyrians conquered a nation, they destroyed it utterly. Those whom they didn't kill, they removed physically to the furthest part of their empire. The intermarried with the remnant to destroy any consciousness of nationhood within a century or two.
What kind of punishment do you think God has planned for America? It's started already, you know. Once, we were rich, free, powerful, industrious, and respected.
Our destiny is to be poor, enslaved, powerless, unemployed, and in thrall to foreigners. That's what keeping abortion "safe and legal" will do to a nation.
Ichabod. The glory has departed.
Yeah, I'm 100 percent behind termination of parenthood — we used to call it adoption.